Officials will end service early on several nights in the next month to accelerate necessary repairs, but transit advocates called the plan “untennable” in light of upcoming Sumner Tunnel closures.
If the MBTA is ever to win a modicum of respect and understanding from the public, it needs to shift its approach to communications from trying to gloss over or outright hide bad news, to speaking honestly about the challenges it faces.
The MBTA lifted an end-to-end speed restriction on the Mattapan Line trolley early Thursday morning, but there’s still no official timeline for ending mandatory slowdowns across the entire Green Line and pockets of the Red, Blue and Orange Lines.
The announcement comes slightly ahead of the halfway point in the unprecedented closure and just as the system of commuter rail trains and shuttle buses faces its acid test as commuters, college students and schoolchildren all return from summer breaks at the same time.
A toxic combination of persistent staffing shortages, misaligned management priorities, and communication breakdowns up and down the chain of command created serious safety deficiencies at the MBTA, federal investigators concluded Wednesday.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joined transit activists on Monday to call for additional federal intervention to help reverse service cuts at the MBTA as the region waits to see what other changes safety investigators will mandate.
Roadway traffic will be “severe” for the duration of a 30-day Orange Line shutdown and effects could begin to pop up as soon as Monday, state officials said this morning.
For transit advocates concerned improving the MBTA and regional transit authorities, the state’s coming windfall in federal infrastructure money represents a still-unseized opportunity whose impact will be muted unless Beacon Hill takes a more proactive role.
Closing a sizable stretch of the MBTA for weeks at a time was once a novel idea to accelerate repairs. Now, after another round that T officials praised as a success, the strategy appears to be here to stay.
Two MBTA maintenance projects will launch Monday that will shut down train service on the affected lines for at least a week, an effort by the T to accelerate original plans and take advantage of lower ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly two dozen MBTA projects, including high-profile components of a plan to speed repairs during more frequent system shutdowns, will be delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new campaign pushing back against cuts to the MBTA maintenance workforce launched Monday with a protest outside the Transportation Building ahead of a T board meeting.
Frequent shutdowns are coming to the entire MBTA system this year, including a month offline for the Green Line’s C and E branches, as the T ramps up maintenance plans.
The MBTA warned commuters of delays on one of its commuter lines this morning because of a “slow speed” derailment Thursday afternoon.
The lackluster reliability of MBTA buses, particularly those on smaller local routes, drew sharp criticism by one T oversight board member Monday who described the system’s performance as “beyond unacceptable.”
Three and a half months after a Red Line train veered off the rails, dealt significant damage to signal infrastructure and incurred millions in costs, the MBTA announced Wednesday that full service has resumed across the entire network.
A survey of Boston-area biotech workers shows almost two-thirds say they would change jobs to get a better commute and four out of five think state leaders are asleep at the switch on transportation.
A 27-year-old axle on a Red Line car fractured and caused a June 11 derailment, MBTA officials announced Monday, offering a clearer picture of the problem that has led to months of delays and headaches on a train line that transports hundreds of thousands of commuters.
MBTA officials have received laboratory test results that they believe will help identify the cause of a June 11 Red Line derailment, but do not plan to make the findings public until later this month, despite previously saying they expected an answer by now.
A major part of why the MBTA is so broken and the state’s roads are so clogged is the lack of investment and attention from successive gubernatorial administrations – of which Gov. Charlie Baker was often a part.
